The corpus record — Latin

tergilla

tergilla · f

the skin

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

tergilla — Lewis & Short

tergilla, ae, f.dim.tergum,

I the skin, sward, or rind of pork, Apic. 4, 3; cf.: ter gilla sive tergillum fori/nh, xoiron de/rma Gloss Philox.

In the wild

Tergilla Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.22.p1
Tergilla Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.14.p37
tergilla Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.174
Tergilla Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.15.p49

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.